From: Geert Uytterhoeven Make CONFIG_NVRAM depend on the prerequisites that are explicitly checked for in drivers/char/nvram.c, or on CONFIG_GENERIC_NVRAM (for PPC). --- 25-akpm/drivers/char/Kconfig | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/char/Kconfig~CONFIG_NVRAM-dependencies drivers/char/Kconfig --- 25/drivers/char/Kconfig~CONFIG_NVRAM-dependencies Wed Mar 10 15:13:24 2004 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/Kconfig Wed Mar 10 15:13:24 2004 @@ -716,6 +716,7 @@ config HW_RANDOM config NVRAM tristate "/dev/nvram support" + depends on ATARI || X86 || X86_64 || ARM || GENERIC_NVRAM ---help--- If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/nvram with major number 10 and minor number 144 using mknod ("man mknod"), _